Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington
Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this
essay collection from the author of The Queen of the Night explores
how we form identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander
Chee has been described as "masterful" by Roxane Gay, "incendiary"
by the New York Times, and "brilliant" by the Washington Post. With
his first collection of nonfiction, he's sure to secure his place
as one of the finest essayists of his generation as well. How to
Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the
entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons
learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed
him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to
writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a
Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He
examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the
nation's history, including his father's death, the AIDS crisis,
9/11, the jobs that supported his writing -- Tarot-reading,
bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley -- the writing of
his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump. By
turns commanding, heartbreaking, and wry, How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel asks questions about how we create ourselves
in life and in art, and how to fight when our dearest truths are
under attack. Named a Best Book by: Time, Washington Post,
Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York
Public Library, Boston Globe, Paris Review, Mother Jones, The A.V.
Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot, Electric Literature, PopSugar, The
Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire,
Bustle, Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness, Tor.com,
Entertainment Cheat Sheet, Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public
Library, Hyphen Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Review of
Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay
Nonfiction * Recipient of the Lambda Literary Trustees' Award *
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of
the Essay * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Gay
Memoir/Biography
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